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August 11, 2025

Texas Just Provided a Housing Lifeline—Dallas-Fort Worth Cities Should Grab It

This op-ed was originally published by The Cannon. You can read the original piece here. Large Texas municipalities have just been handed an enormous opportunity by the legislature. They should seize it….

July 18, 2025

How We Can Make Housing Affordable Again

A letter to the editors in response to William A. Galston’s recent article, Trump Can’t Ignore Our Housing Crisis This letter was originally published by The Wall Street Journal. You can read…

July 17, 2025

Why HUD Was Right to Roll Back PAVE Rules

This op-ed originally appeared in National Mortgage News. The recent decision by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Office of Management and Budget to roll back key policies of the…

July 9, 2025

Housing Plan Falls Short

This op-ed was originally published in Your Observer. You can read the whole piece here. Recently, the Florida Housing Coalition, along with the Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Barancik Foundation, Patterson Foundation and…

November 17, 2024

Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike

On Nov. 5, Denver’s voters rejected Affordable Denver, a half-cent sales tax increase for subsidized housing. The tax hike would have burdened working families while failing to address the root…

October 11, 2024

HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets

Kamala Harris’s proposal for a $40 billion fund for local governments to explore “innovative” housing solutions will likely funnel money into projects burdened by self-defeating government-mandated affordability requirements, which HUD…

October 10, 2024

Harris’s Housing Plan and the Five C’s That Will Derail It

Kamala Harris’s latest campaign ad pledges to “end America’s housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals.” However, her plan is unlikely to significantly increase the overall housing supply. The…

October 8, 2024

Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has proposed housing policies that recycle ineffective strategies long seen in federal housing programs. Her key proposals include subsidies for the construction of 3 million new…

September 23, 2024

The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages

A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000 in down-payment support, at a total cost of $100 billion over four years. Absent a severe…

September 11, 2024

As America’s housing crisis intensifies, the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2024 has emerged as a high-profile yet expensive solution.  

The bill comes with a $500 billion price tag and endorsements from leading Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris. Moody’s, a major financial services company, has also blessed the act, predicting it will lower rents…